As part of their ongoing Election Integrity Project, Judicial Watch plans to have volunteer poll observers that will monitor polling sites in Virginia on Election Day.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton stated that they have significant concerns about the integrity of the election process in that state.
Fitton stated that the reason is that 1,046 aliens, or residents who are not U.S. citizens, were on the voter rolls in 8 Virginia counties. If that rate of non-citizen registration held in the rest of Virginia’s counties… that would mean that about 6,500 non-citizens are registered to vote in Virginia, Fitton reported.
A September 2016 report by the Public Interest Legal Foundation and the Virginia Voter’s Alliance shows that “In the 8 jurisdictions that provided us with lists of aliens recently removed from their voter rolls, Judicial Watch discovered that 31 non-citizens had cast a total of 186 votes between 2005 and 2015. The most alien votes were cast in 2012 followed by 2008, the year President Obama was elected to his first term.”
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There are 133 total Virginia voting jurisdictions, so the number in this report represents a mere fraction of the true total of illegal votes.
Another concern of Judicial Watch is that 19 deceased individuals recently re-registered to vote in Virginia.
In 2013, the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program (Crosscheck), which provides lists of voters who are registered in more than one of the 26 states participating in the program, revealed that 57,923 Virginia voters were registered to vote in at least one other state.
“Of course, this number would be much higher if the Crosscheck program included every state – including New York, California, and Texas, the most populous states in the country,” Fitton concluded.
Judicial Watch Election Integrity Project leader Robert Popper will train Virginia’s poll watchers. Popper is a former deputy chief of the Voting Section in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and a veteran poll observer for the Department of Justice.
The Election Integrity project began in February 2012. Since that time, Judicial Watch has put several state and county officials on notice when they are in violation of federal laws requiring them to clean up their voter rolls.
“We also took action in lawsuits defending photo ID and other commonsense election integrity measures. In addition, there are also our historic and successful lawsuits in states like Ohio and Indiana that resulted in cleaner voter rolls and have achieved victories in the United States Supreme Court to stop race-based elections in Hawaii.
Our team also fought in court against the Left (i.e. the Obama administration) that wants to make it easier for non-citizens to register to vote, and harder to remove them once they are illegally registered. And Judicial Watch has conducted election monitoring before, for example in New Hampshire in 2014,” Fitton stated.
“Judicial Watch election monitors will be neutral and silent observers at select polling places in Virginia,” Popper noted. “We do not oppose or endorse candidates for public office. Our election monitoring in Virginia is wholly independent of any party or candidate.”
Recent polls show that voters are becoming “deeply skeptical” about election integrity. One poll found that 98 percent of people believe that voter fraud occurs: 74 percent believed that “some” or a “great deal” of voter fraud is going on, and 24 percent said hardly any. A poll in The Washington Post found that: “60% of Republicans believe illegal immigrants vote; 43% believe people vote using dead people’s names.”
Fitton said that if Virginia residents are interested in monitoring a local polling site on Election Day, they should respond by email to Eric Lee at elee@judicialwatch.org.
“The integrity of our government begins with our ability to trust what happens in the voting booth,” said Fitton. “Incidents of voting fraud now flaring up around the country are an indication that our concern is not misplaced.”
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